Perelman Tonight: Launching yet another journey, "The Swiss Family Perelman"

"In the angle of the obdurate outthrust jaw, buckwheat-flecked from the morning meal, one read quenchless resolve, a nature scornful of compromise and dedicated to squeezing the last nickel out of any enterprise."

-- from tonight's installment of "Rancors Aweigh,"
the opening chapter of Swiss Family Pearlman

by Ken

In case you haven't gotten it yet, tonight we're going to launch our man, this time accompanied by his family, on another travel odyssey. Like the round-the-world trip of Westward Ha!, this journey was originally chronicled for Holiday magazine, with illustrations by Perelman's old friend and collaborator, the great theater illustrator Al Hirschfeld.


FOR THE OPENING SALVO OF THE SWISS
FAMILY PERELMAN, CLICK HERE


THURBER TONIGHT (including BENCHLEY, WILL CUPPY, WOLCOTT GIBBS, RING LARDNER, BOB AND RAY, E. B. WHITE, JEAN SHEPHERD, and PERELMAN TONIGHT): Check out the series to date

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